Food Innovation and Legal Challenges

Author: Lucia Scaffardi; Chiara Cerbone
Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
ISBN: 9789004740891
Published In: May 2026
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: Netherlands ? Disclaimer:
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What are the legal challenges to ensuring that food innovation promotes sustainability, protects fundamental rights, and strengthens global food security? Food Innovation and Legal Challenges offers a rigorous, interdisciplinary examination of emerging technologies, innovative production methods, and evolving governance models in the agrifood sector. Covering topics from insect-based proteins and cultured meat to Agriculture 4.0, vertical farming, biotechnology, and innovative policies addressing food waste and food poverty, the volume brings together research from scholars with expertise in constitutional, international, EU, comparative, food, and agricultural law. Combining doctrinal analysis with comparative and empirical perspectives, it delivers concrete recommendations and original insights for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners.

Preface vii

Lucia Scaffardi and Chiara Cerbone

List of Figures and Tables ix

Introduction 1

Lucia Scaffardi and Chiara Cerbone

Reconciling the Fluid and the Rigid: the Intersection of Law, Science, and Sustainability 6

Lorenza Violini

Food Security and Scientific Innovation in International Law: Striking a Balance between Patent Rights on Plant Resources and Human Rights Protection 26

Ludovica Di Lullo

The European Union’s Action in Promoting Agrifood Innovation: Fostering through Funding 50

Nicola Bergamaschi

Edible Insects on the EU Plate: Navigating Regulatory Challenges and Future Prospects 70

Maria Laura Grilli

Innovating Food, Shaping Trust: Insights from a Consumer Survey on EU Novel Foods and Cell-Based Meat Regulation 88

Giacomo Degli Antoni, Marco Faillo and Giulia Formici

The Internet of Farming and Agriculture 4.0: Regulatory Perspectives on the Fourth Industrial Revolution in Agriculture 113

Maria Giulia Corazza

Vertical Farming: Regulatory Perspectives and Sustainability Implications 132

Simone Pitto

The Regulation of Agrifood Biotechnology: from GMO s to New Genomic Techniques 155